NYPL Labs

In reading a recent article about the Interactive Technologies Group at the New York Times, I couldn’t help being struck by how many parallels one might make to similar issues confronting our cultural-memory organizations (libraries, archives, museums).

This passage (excerpted) in particular jumped out:

The proposal was to create a newsroom: a group of developers-slash-journalists, or journalists-slash-developers, who would work on long-term, medium-term, short-term journalism…. This team would “cut across all the desks,” providing a corrective to the maddening old system, in which each innovation required months for permissions and design. The new system elevated coders into full-fledged members of the Times—deputized to collaborate with reporters and editors, not merely to serve their needs.

Read more in Emily Nussbaum’s New York Magazine article, The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady.